For the first part of the interview, see: An Interview with Conductor James Conlon, Part 1. The facilitation of this interview by the Los Angeles Opera is gratefully acknowledged. Wm: It has been written that it was in Cologne you made your commitment to the “recovered voices” – composers whose lives were lost or careers [...]
Entries from April 2011
An Interview with Conductor James Conlon, Part 2
April 14th, 2011
Tags: 2008-2012 William's Interviews
Dropping in on the Adler years: A bit more on the 1979 season . . .
April 8th, 2011
After sampling another batch of historic broadcasts, Arthur Bloomfield our guest commentator (and historian of the San Francisco Opera) writes: When the Adler Years were settled into their cruising altitude back in the 1970s there was usually a frisson when that earlierday auteur director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle came up with a new production. And there were [...]
Tags: Blazing Batons with Arthur Bloomfield
San Diego’s Solo Celebration of Strauss’ “Rosenkavalier” Centennial – April 3, 2011
April 5th, 2011
New productions of Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” are being mounted in observance of the opera’s centennial of its first performance in several cities on the European Continent. The opera is being feted with a new Willi Decker production in Amsterdam and the revival of the modernistic Herbert Wernicke production at Milan’s La Scala. A revival of [...]